2 Glitzy cards for TCPTUES187

 Hey there! I was a lean (well, not as lean as I'd like!), mean crafting machine yesterday! I managed some magazine submissions, 2 birthday cards, these 2 cards, gift tags/ornaments, AND my project for next week's colourQ! Whew! But of course, 24 hours of neglect to my house and it looks like a bomb went off! Time to clean, so I'll keep this short!

I recently ordered some new dies and other goodies from The Cat's Pajamas! Last week I was the randomly chosen weekly winner, so I got 10$ in credit, plus they've had some great sales over there lately! I got 3 new dies in the mail, the scalloped border, the pennant die (finally you won't have to listen to me whine anymore about how I don't have one!;) and that lovely snowflake die. I used them all on these 2 cards, the challenge was to make something SHINY!! :)

So this first card with PJ is pretty fun! I added a border on the right using a glittery paper & the scalloped border die. Used lots of rhinestones, even highlighting the pattern in the paper with teeny little rhinestones. You like? :) PJ is paper pieced from a scrap of kraft plaid paper and I even gave him rhinestone buttons. He's holding a flag made from the new mini pennant in the set, I stamped the sentiment on there.

On card 2, I used all 3 new dies. I used the gold paper again, some red glitter gems and some gold ones too. I tried to temper the glitziness with the muted DPs and a wood snowflake behind the glittery one. I used the scallop die to create the "landscape" for the trees which have wood trunks from that same wood sheet. Initially I was going to add PJ in his Santa hat to this card, but once I got working on it, I really liked the way it turned out.

Well that's it for me right now! I've got some more goodies to show you in the upcoming days, so stay tuned! :)

Hugs, Noelle

supply list: stamps and dies: TCP; papers: SU!, MME,  and Authentique; glittery paper: Martha Stewart Crafts; gems: various; inkpads: SU!; stickpin: Little Yellow Bicycle